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How does one design a city out of a void and invent spaces to function for the present and future dwellers? Cities are heaps of history through which rays of light and poetry emerge. However, people are what define the spaces of each building. Their movement and actions transform the spaces into a stage. The dilemma is one of sensation versus reasoning. Le Corbusier developed a plan, but the use can only be dictated and witnessed truthfully over time...

The book focuses on the Indian city of Chandigarh, which was designed by Le Corbusier after the country won its independence in 1947. As the press release states, the book represents Le Corbusier’s deeply held conviction that “architecture is the skillful, correct, a magnificent play of volumes assembled in light.”

The photographer Martien Mulder’s new book, “The City Beautiful,” is an exploration of the quiet weight of the relationship between light and space in Chandigarh, India. After the country won independence in 1947, Le Corbusier was asked to design the city of Chandigarh. What he created, realizing his Modernist vision, became known as The City Beautiful. “Of course, as a photographer I am always chasing the light, and, in Chandigarh, the light is just a dream,” Mulder says. The photos she took there — and the resulting book — comprise Mulder’s homage to Le Corbusier’s core belief that “architecture is...

"What do you think is the enduring legacy of punk culture on sexuality?It was the gateway to making things more progressive. It created an open dialogue. I don't think young people today are shocked by gender issues and stuff like that. People can be more secure. The terrible way that it was when you would be victimized for being gay, hopefully it's now a thing of the past. Punk was sort of the first culture to embrace different ideas about sexuality. Previously, there was the 60s' sexual liberation, but that was pretty heterosexual. It wasn't until the advent...

"The très collectable tome is out through Dashwood Books from September 1st, but you can start your education right now with Bruce LaBruce's personal essay about that punk life which we're psyched to be exclusively previewing here."...

"Beginning in 1972 and spanning right up to the present day, Showboat provides a chronological survey of the relationship between punk and sex as seen through original posters, flyers, record covers, and ephemera drawn from the editor´s punk archive, The Mott Collection. Alongside this material are written contributions from musicians, artists, writers, designers, activists, sex workers, and filmmakers whose work is wedded to the punk movement. Contributions come in the form of anecdotes, lyrics, manifestos, personal essays, and historical overviews from which impassioned, engaging, and often contentious positions on punk and sex emerge..."